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A key Barclay brothers’ lieutenant allowed data on his laptop and mobile phone
to be deleted after he had been asked to preserve all e-mails and text
messages as part of a legal claim, the High Court heard yesterday.

Richard Faber, a director of Ellerman Investments and a key figure in the
battle for control of the Maybourne Hotel Group, admitted that he had
changed both his laptop and his iPhone late last year, but insisted that he
had done nothing wrong.

Mr Faber, a former son-in-law of Sir Frederick Barclay, was being questioned
by Philip Marshall, QC, who is